Sunbury Locks. Steel engraving. From Eighty Picturesque Views of the Thames and Medway.
Text accompanying the engraving
The river, on quitting Walton, assumes a more direct course mth a deepened current, and soon reaches Sunbury lock and weir: Sunbury lies on the left. A short distance in advance is the residence of the St. Quentin family: the house appears an epitome of the façade of Hampton-Court, and has often been compared to that palace in miniature. The stream now becomes rapid, and quickly arrives at Hampton, whose new and elegant church has often afforded an interesting object at the different windings of the stream. On the Surry [sic] bank is a long-extended line of common, called Moulsey-Hurst, once famed in pugilistic history, and on which annual races are held.
Related Material: other Locks depicted in this volume
Related Material: other images of Sunbury
- Sunbury and the Thames (from The Book of the Thames from its Rise to its Fall)
- St Mary's Church (S. S. Teulon, architect)
- Sunbury (Drawing by Sharpley)
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Bibliography
Fearnside, W. G. Eighty Picturesque Views of the Thames and Medway, Engraved on Steel by the First Artists. London: Black and Armstrong, [n.d. after 1837]. Internet Archive version of a copy in the University of California at Berkley Library. Web. 30 March 2012.
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